• Title:
• Close to Home

• Director:
• Dalia Hager and Vidi Bilu

• Hebrew with English subtitles

• Israel, 90 minutes

• Venue:
• Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema and
  Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater

• Purchase Tickets:
• Show 1   Show 2 is Sold Out.

This award-winning Israeli feature film follows the lives of 18-year olds Smadar and Mirit, as they begin their military service. While some may consider it a privilege to remain close to home instead of living in the barracks like most soldiers, Smadar and Mirit are dissatisfied with their assignment to patrol the streets of Jerusalem together. The girls are required to detain Palestinian passersby, check their papers, and register their details on special forms. However, most of the time they’re more interested in window shopping and checking out cute guys. An unlikely pair, Smadar is headstrong and Mirit is rather shy. Despite their differences, a friendship begins to evolve against the backdrop of Jerusalem ’s tense political reality. Close to Home is the  story of the ordinary moments that create their friendship and the extraordinary moments when the background bursts into the foreground.

CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of Israel and Lilith Magazine--independent, Jewish and frankly feminist

• Purchase Tickets:
• Show 1   Show 2 is Sold Out.